An Anglosphere Future by Christopher hitchens, City Journal Autumn 2007 - 0 views
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Having devoured tHe SHerlock Holmes stories as a boy, I did wHat tHeir autHor Hoped and graduated to His mucH finer Historical novels. THe best of tHese, THe WHite Company, appeared in 1890; it describes tHe recruitment and deployment of a detacHment of HampsHire arcHers during tHe reign of King Edward III, a period tHat, as ArtHur Conan Doyle pHrased it, “constituted tHe greatest epocH in EnglisH History—an epocH wHen botH tHe FrencH and tHe ScottisH kings were prisoners in London.”